Hackers suspected to be behind a mass extortion attack that affected hundreds of companies worldwide late on Sunday demanded R1-billion to restore the data they are holding ransom.
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The Global Partnership for Ethiopia, the Safaricom-led consortium that won a licence to build a network in the East African nation, has appointed Anwar Soussa to lead the venture.
Botswana has granted a generation licence for a 100MW solar project to local firm Shumba Energy, making it the first independent power producer to set up a large-scale solar plant in the country.
China’s antitrust regulator is set to formally block Tencent Holdings’ plan to merge the country’s top two videogame streaming sites, Huya and DouYu, three people familiar with the matter said.
The hackers behind a mass ransomware attack exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in IT management software made by Kaseya, cybersecurity researchers said.
A social media site launched on Sunday by Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former US President Donald Trump, was briefly hacked, and more than 500 000 people have registered to use the site, Miller said.
Eswatini’s biggest mobile operator, MTN, has been sued after the company cut off users’ access to the Internet on 29 June in line with a government directive.
Less than a year after joining Telkom’s board, former Openserve CEO Alphonzo Samuels has resigned as a non-executive director. The company has also appointed two new directors.
Collapsed bitcoin scheme Mirror Trading International was placed in final liquidation this week by the Western Cape high court.
Facebook is starting to warn some users they might have seen “extremist content” on the social media site, the company said on Thursday.